The South Central Family Health Care Center will be getting $950,000 via the president’s Recovery Act, the White House announced Wednesday.

About $600 million is being distributed nationwide to help pay for the renovation 85 community health centers and to help them develop electronic record-keeping systems. The idea is to create jobs while expanding health care services in poor areas.

The biggest federal grants in Southern California went to San Diego County clinics. The Vista Community Clinic will get $11.5 million, and the Centro de Salud de La Comunidad San Ysidro will get $9.8 million, according to the White House.

Separately, the South Bay Family Health Care announced that it was awarded four grants totaling $192,000 from Kaiser Permanente. The largest grant, about $150,000 over two years, will go toward developing a management program for people with chronic diseases such as asthma, diabetes and high blood pressure, according to John Merryman of the clinic.

A $12,000 grant will support the clinics AIDS/HIV testing and counseling program, and two grants totaling $30,000 will help pay for treating indigent South Bay resident, according to Merryman.